It's soooo strange that I have about zero desire to even log in to see the updates, like when you have a huge crush on someone and it feels like it's going to last forever and then one day it's just... gone. Not a great feeling, I'm all out of love for RDO... at this point I'm only hoping for some Arthur, Sadie, Charles DLC.

I’m pretty sad about it too. They really let us down on this one. We waited soooo long too.

“New features and more coming to the Red Dead Online Beta on Feb 26th with new improvements and enhancements to the game’s open world, including a new Law and Bounty system, weapons balancing, changes to player blips on the mini-map and more. “

I’d love to be a fly on rockstars wall right now and see if they are really so oblivious or if they’re sweating bullets trying to translate this lost language we have been apparently speaking for the past 8 years.

Aside from nerfing S&S, here’s a few alternatives I think would improve the situation.

Stop making things so damn expensive. You need to be able to purchase all the things that counteract S&S. Next they need to improve weapon switching. Sometimes you run into a S&S user and you need to be able to switch it up, but you can’t because it’s so sluggish. Also, make it more obvious they are using it. Sometimes it shows above their head and in the radar, but some times it doesn’t at all. Make the icon more noticeable and consistent.

IMO worse than any missed opportunity and broken feature is the one they designed - slow and steady.

Think back to when they were just rumoring this game. We said the one thing we loved about the first RDR was the headshot. Fast forward to now - they have successfully made the headshot pointless. Any time someone uses S&S, which is more every day, he headshot becomes useless. Then it just boils down to shotguns and body shots. The newbie shit we all hated. Did they ever even play RDR?

Slow and steady is still the most powerful deadeye card. Meows bad more are using it, but very few still know how to counteract it. Never without one is by far my most valued card aside from that, the hat has saved my bacon many times. If you set a posse outfit you spawn back with a hat every life.

TBH, the first things they should have done over anything else was add the ability to have private sessions and fix the posse system. Simply being able to have fixed teams each game and having the ability to have private matches would significantly improve replay-ability for those who game with crews.

I want nothing to do with PvP right now, but could be coaxed into lengthy sessions if we could do, say, an RSG vs RRR match.

It absolutely amazes me because a few years ago they started these crews on social club and you can link to your social club, yet they seemingly show no interest in making posses work or crews transferable or anything focuses around them. Posses and teams are broken, that should be an immediate fix.

What makes it worse is their lack of transparency. Ok I get that they probably had this in mind for a while now. So you release an update with no intention of fixing something that you know everyone wants - say so ahead of time. Say THIS is what we have planned, but bear with us we are working on this and this and this is our timeline. We know it’s an issue.

Instead they ignore the complaints, post general vague statements about fixing things, then release update that fixes nothing. Rockstar never ceases to boggle my mind.